Ignoramus

Ignoramus,
a famous university farcical play in Latin by George Ruggle ( 1575 – 1622 ), a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, produced in 1615 before James I , an adaptation of an Italian comedy by della Porta. The title part is a burlesque of the recorder of Cambridge, Brackyn, who is subjected to various humiliations; he falls in love with the heroine Rosabella, but is fobbed off with the virago Polla, belaboured, thought to be possessed by evil spirits, subjected to exorcism, and finally carried off to a monastery for treatment. Brackyn had already been held up to ridicule in the last part of The Parnassus Plays .